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Greens plan huge push President Obama climate plan

2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Politico: President Barack Obama's new climate rule is getting a major push from his green allies, who plan to blitz the airwaves next week with the start of a summer-long campaign to champion the administration's attack on carbon. Obama's fiercest critics, meanwhile, are largely holding their fire for now. That means environmental, public health and religious groups may be waging a mostly one-sided publicity onslaught -- at least in nationwide paid media -- after the White House and the EPA unveil their...

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Huge task awaits India's finance minister

2014-05-28 00:14:38| Beverages - Topix.net

NEW DELHI: Hardened by a term in prison as a student leader and polished over a career as a successful and urbane courtroom lawyer, Arun Jaitley, India's new finance minister, could prove an effective foil for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Huge Swath Amazon Preserved in Record-Setting Deal

2014-05-26 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yahoo: On May 21, the Brazilian government, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and partners announced the creation of a $215 million fund to ensure long-term protection of the world's largest network of protected areas 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. It's not often as conservationists that we get to celebrate such a big win. I've been working in the Amazon for 25 years originally studying the ecology and behavior of spider monkeys but not until today have I been able to claim such...

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